The Rousse Regional Historical Museum is one of the 11 regional museums of

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. It acts within the

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, and

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regions. The museum occupies the building of the former Battenberg Palace, previously a local court, built 1879–1882 by

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. The Rousse Regional Historical Museum was established in 1904. Its basis are the archeological collections of Karel and Hermenguild Shkorpil, as well as of the naturalist Vasil Kovachev, which were gathered in the "Knyaz Boris" men's high school of Rousse.

Collection

The museum holds approximately 140,000 items, including: * prehistoric pottery and idol plastic arts * the

Borovo Treasure The Borovo Treasure, also known as the Borovo Silver Treasure, is a Thracian hoard of five matching silver-gilt items discovered in late 1974 while ploughing a field in Borovo, Bulgaria. The treasure is kept in the history museum at Ruse. Item ...

of the 4th century BC (a ritual wine set, gold-plated silver) * the finds of excavations of the antique Danube castles ''Yatrus'' and ''Sexaginta Prista'', and of the medieval Bulgarian city Cherven * a collection of medieval frescoes * a collection of exhibits of traditional lifestyle * a collection of urban clothing, china, glass, and silver from the end of the 19th — beginning of the 20th century * personal belongings of notable figures from the struggle for national liberation * a

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collection * a collection of bones from prehistoric mammals, including a unique lower jaw of a Mammuthus rumanus * a bronze helmet from 4th–3rd century BC, which it is suggested may have belonged to one of the soldiers of

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. The helmet was contributed in August 2006 by the Bobokovi brothers, major shareholders of the Prista Oil company. The time and place where the helmet was found was not publicly revealed. The museum features seven full-time exhibitions, three of them being open-air: * the Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo * the medieval city of Cherven * the

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castle of ''Sexaginta Prista''

Gallery

Image:03-08-2006-Rousse 066.jpg, Front view Image:Rousse Regional Historical Museum 068.jpg, Front view Image:03-08-2006-Rousse 069.jpg, A detail of the façade

References

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